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Showdown Iraq: Inspectors Visit Sites
Aired February 17, 2003 - 06:10 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Have to talk about Iraq right now. U.N. inspectors are back on the weapons hunt.
For more on that we take you to the center of the controversy, Rym Brahimi live in Baghdad -- good morning.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Carol.
Well, indeed, inspectors going out this morning actually found a group of Iraqi boy scouts demonstrating in front of the United Nations headquarters. Now they were waving banners, they were also brandishing portraits of President Saddam Hussein. It's not exactly clear whether they were demonstrating in front of the U.N. headquarters because that's where the inspectors are or because they believe that the U.N. humanitarian operation needs to do something more. But at any rate, they asked to see a representative, were shown in and saw the head of the humanitarian program.
Now inspectors, meanwhile, have been focusing on missile sites. At least four groups of missile experts have been to various sites with missile programs, especially focusing on the Al Samoud 2 missile which was found by a panel of experts -- said by a panel of experts to exceed the authorized range of 150 kilometers or 93 miles.
Now what they've been doing there, Carol, is they've been tagging those missiles known as the Al Samoud 2. They've also been tagging the SA2 engines that could be used for those missiles. That's something, of course, there seem to be a lot of questions as to what's going to happen to these missiles. Apparently Hans Blix has said that he would discuss this with the Iraqi authorities. But the U.S. administration seems intent on destroying them and says this will be the next test that Iraq has to face to show its cooperation, accept the destruction of those missiles. Iraq, meanwhile, says that in the words of the Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz that it's not necessary -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right. Rym Brahimi reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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Aired February 17, 2003 - 06:10 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Have to talk about Iraq right now. U.N. inspectors are back on the weapons hunt.
For more on that we take you to the center of the controversy, Rym Brahimi live in Baghdad -- good morning.
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Carol.
Well, indeed, inspectors going out this morning actually found a group of Iraqi boy scouts demonstrating in front of the United Nations headquarters. Now they were waving banners, they were also brandishing portraits of President Saddam Hussein. It's not exactly clear whether they were demonstrating in front of the U.N. headquarters because that's where the inspectors are or because they believe that the U.N. humanitarian operation needs to do something more. But at any rate, they asked to see a representative, were shown in and saw the head of the humanitarian program.
Now inspectors, meanwhile, have been focusing on missile sites. At least four groups of missile experts have been to various sites with missile programs, especially focusing on the Al Samoud 2 missile which was found by a panel of experts -- said by a panel of experts to exceed the authorized range of 150 kilometers or 93 miles.
Now what they've been doing there, Carol, is they've been tagging those missiles known as the Al Samoud 2. They've also been tagging the SA2 engines that could be used for those missiles. That's something, of course, there seem to be a lot of questions as to what's going to happen to these missiles. Apparently Hans Blix has said that he would discuss this with the Iraqi authorities. But the U.S. administration seems intent on destroying them and says this will be the next test that Iraq has to face to show its cooperation, accept the destruction of those missiles. Iraq, meanwhile, says that in the words of the Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz that it's not necessary -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right. Rym Brahimi reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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